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Australia should lead efforts to address online gender-based violence. Since the UN Security Council adopted the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda in 2000, the world has started to facilitate women’s participation in peace and security processes while protecting them from gender-based violence. But ….
Stepping up military support to humanitarian assistance in the …
The newly agreed Pacific defence response group to help with disaster relief will help to solidify Australia’s role as a primary provider of security assistance. It also gives the region a vital tool to promote narratives of Pacific-led security, reducing the need for military assistance from ...
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Strategic advantage, sovereignty and Australia’s geopolitical identity
As Sargeant argued, it may be time to ‘imagine ourselves into what we might be, but also what the world might be’ and to develop a distinctive, gainful and effective presence in the region. In this moment of strategic disruption, Australia needs to do the intellectual hard yards or risk forgoing the ability to shape its national destiny.
What Indonesia and Australia share | The Strategist
Aug 11, 2014 · The big political and social belief Australia and Indonesia now share will be useful in dealing with the most secret of topics. Australia’s abiding, intense intelligence focus on Indonesia got a public showing last year. Indonesian outrage at the revelation that Australian intelligence targeted the phones of President SBY, his wife and inner ...
Triton: transforming Australia’s airborne ISR capabilities
Oct 3, 2024 · The Triton’s journey to Australia began in 1999, under Joint Project 2062, with the ADF experimenting with the earliest versions of the Global Hawk. The Triton’s capabilities include an ability to reach altitudes of 15 kilometres (50,000ft), stay aloft for 24 hours, provide real-time data and intelligence and sweep the ocean surface within ...
Australia’s fuel reserves don’t have to keep running on empty
The package included the 2020 decision to store $94 million of oil in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. While that was welcome, the fuel is stored far from Australia’s bowsers. The package also included $260 million in grants to boost diesel storage by 40%, or 780 megalitres, in 2021. National fuel calculations include bulk fuel storage by ...
The cost of Australia’s defence: hard choices for the new government
For 2022–23, the consolidated defence funding line (including both the Department of Defence and the Australian Signals Directorate) is $48.6 billion, which is 2.11% of GDP based on the budget papers’ estimates of GDP. That funding represents a very substantial nominal growth of 7.4% compared with 2021–22. It’s the 10th straight year of ...
An office of national research: a new instrument of national power ...
Australia needs an office of national research, to make the greatest use of our intellectual resources in building our defences, strengthening our economy and supporting our society. The 2024 National Defence Strategy urgently calls upon us to use all arms of national power to defend Australia and advance our interests.
Leveraging innovation from diverse sources for Defence
In the 2023 defence strategic review (DSR), the Australian government recognised that Australia’s innovation ecosystem needed a leg up. Greater support for innovation, reinforced by faster acquisition timelines and deeper ties between government and industry is essential to meeting Australia’s national security needs.